Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solemn pledge" that the unions would do something themselves about the stoppages. Such strikes account for 95% of all work stoppages in Britain, and last year cost the country 4,500,000 man-days. Whether Feather will be able to redeem his pledge is uncertain. In August, 1,300 blast-furnacemen at a steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, ignored his efforts to end a three-week walkout that hammered steel output to a 17-month...
Once elected, the ten-man committee plans a relatively elaborate three day blast in April comparable to the upperclass Spring Week-end. Although the committee has found it increasingly hard to entice freshmen into attending this extravaganza, in 1967 the event, which included "The Temptations." was executed without financial strain. But the last two years. Jubilee has flopped...
...show." (He was getting nervous again, damn it; he could feel his self-control evaporating like sweat.) "I can pick up the tickets on Monday. I'll call you Monday night and let you know what show it will be; I'm sure we'll have a real blast...
...with one of the plant offices, cajoled plant guards with a few cases of beer, and cut down a few shrubs on a nearby slag heap. When he returned, photographic equipment in hand, he found a splendid view of an awful sight. There, in the foreground, were four huge blast furnaces, with the rest of smelly Oberhausen beyond...
Metzger is pessimistic about the possibility of stopping the Rulison blast, but he feels that the Colorado Committee has achieved something merely by asking pointed questions. "We have encouraged the AEC and the Army to release information which ordinarily they wouldn't release. In the process, we have created a tremendous amount of public awareness. People are beginning to realize they can do something about their environment." The question is, what? The Denver Post has strongly criticized Project Rulison; the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking a court injunction. But Rulison's nuclear device is now firmly...